This week the Palermo bosses Antonino Rotolo, Carmelo Cangemi, Salvatore Sorrentino and Giovanni Nicchi were sentenced to 12 years and eight months for cocaine dealing, with the aggravating circumstance of having facilitated the activity of Cosa Nostra.
The trial was removed from the main proceedings, the sentence of which has become final in 2012 with definitive sentences of more than two centuries in prison for the 18 convicted.